learn to do well. Seek judgement help the poor oppressed be favourable to the fatherless, defend the widow, and than come & reprove me, saith the Lord. If your sins be as red as scarlet, yet shall they be made as whit as snow, & if they be like purple, yet shall they be made like white wool. If that ye will be contented & hear me, ye shall eat● the good fruits of the earth. If that ye will not but provoke me unto anger, the sword shall deuourey●u, for the mouth of the lord hath spoken it jere. seven. ¶ Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the flesh. For when I brought your fathers out of the land of egypt, I 〈◊〉 not one word to them of 〈◊〉 ●●ferynges and sacrifices, 〈◊〉. xi. commanded them, saying 〈◊〉 to your my voice, & I shallbe yo● 〈◊〉 them out shall be my people, & wa● 〈…〉 ways that I have commanded you that ye may prosper. Amos. v. ¶ I hate & utterly defy your holy days & where as ye sense me whom ye come together, I will not accept it. And though ye ●ffer me brent offerings, yet will not I receive your gifts. Away from me with the noise of thy songs, for I can not abide the hearing of thy playing at the orgamnes. Provide the equity may flow as the water, and righteousness as a mighty stream. For in these things have I delight & pleasure saith the Lord. three Reg. xviii. How long will ye halt on both parts? If the Lord be God follow him? If Baal be God, follow him Math. xv. ¶ This people draweth nigh unto with their mouth, & honoureth me ●●yr lips, but their heart is 〈◊〉 ●o me, verily they worship 〈◊〉 ●ayne, teaching doctrine, even would not obey their Lodre God. Psal. lxxviii. Let them put their hope in God, & not forget the works of the Lord but seek after his commandements. Let them not be like their forefathers which were a froward & a spiteful nation, a nation that would never be true hearted nor bear an upright mind toward God. Psal cxv. Be not hard hearted as your forefathers were, which chode & rebelled against me. Psal. cvi We have sinned with our forefathers we have done unjustly and committed iniquity. Psal xlvi. Trust not in rulars, norishe sons of men, in whom is no he●●● For 〈◊〉 their ●●eth goeth away, they return unto their earth in the day shall all their thoughts, counsels, devices & imaginations come to nought. Heir. xi. I have alway said unto your forefathers sins I brought them out of the land of Egypt even unto this day, hear my voice, but they would not hear, nor once bow their ear unto it, but every one of them is gone a stray in the frowardness o● his wicked heart. Yea the people of juda and the men of jerusalem are also fallen unto the wickedness of their forefathers, which would not hear my words, in somuch that they are all ready gone away after strange gods and serve them. The house of Israel & the house of juda have broken the covenant which I made with their fathers. Therefore thus saith the lord. Behold I will bring in extreme punishments upon them so that they shall not escape from them. They shall 〈◊〉 unto me, but I will not hear the 〈◊〉 cities of juda & the inhabyte●● of jerusalem shall go & cry unto them to whom they offered Sacrifice, & yet ●hal they not save them in the time of their trouble. According to the number of thy cities were thy gods O juda, & after the number of thy ways o Jerusalem, haste the set up altars of abomination to do sacrifice unto Baalim. Heir. xvi. Your forefathers have forsake me, saith the Lord, & they are gone away after strange Gods & have served them and worshipped them, yea they have utterly given me over and have not kept my law. But you have wrought more abomination than all your forefathers have done For behold every one of you walk after the lewdness of his own wicked heart, & will not hear me. Ezechi. two. Theyrfore fathers have broken my covenant even unto this day, & they to whom I send that are children 〈◊〉 out all shame & of such an heart. not be reclaimed. Ezechi. ●x. ¶ Walk not in the commandments of your forefathers, nor keep not their ordinances ●ther pollute yourselves with they● idols. For I am the Lord your God. Therefore walk in my precepts and keep my judgements and do them. Daniel. ix. ¶ Confusion of face & utter shame be unto us, unto our kings, unto ours rulers, and to our forefathers, which have sinned. zacha. i. Be not like your forefathers, unto whom the Prophets in times past cried, saying. Thus saith the Lord of hosts. Turn from your evil ways and from your abominable thoughts, but they would not hearken nor give any attendance unto me saith the Lord. two. Paral. nineteen. Our forefathers have sinned & have done evil in the sight of the same day, & say, because of that which the lord did for me, when I departed out of Egipte. Therefore shall it be a sign unto the in rhine hand, & a token of remembrance before thine eyes, that the law of the lord may be in thy mouth, how that the lord brought that out of Egypt with a mighty hand Numer. xv. ¶ Speak to the children of Israel & say unto them, that they make them guards upon the quarters of their garments among all your posterities & put yellow rybandes upon the guards in the quarters. And the guards shall serve you, that ye may look 〈◊〉 on them & remember all the cōmaūd●ētes of the Lord & do them, that order not yourselves after t●●●eanynge of your own hart●●● go a whoring after your own●●es Therefore shall ye reme●● 〈◊〉 ●al my commandments & 〈◊〉 unto God. ●●●t. iiii. Take heed to thyself now & keep well thy soul, that the forget not the things which thine eyes have seen & that they depart not out of thy heart all the days of thy life. And thou shalt teach them thy children and thy childers children. Deut. vi. ¶ Here O Israel the Lord our god is one Lord only. And thou shalt love the Lord thy god with all thy heart, with all thy soul, & with all thy might. And these words, which I command the this day, shalt thou take to heart and shalt rehearse them unto thy chylmes, & shalt talk of them, when thou s●●●st in thine house, & when thou w●●r est by the way, when thou liest do●abl● and when thou rylest up. And ●ark● shalt bind them for a sign be s●n thine hand, and they 〈◊〉 be a to●● of remembrance before 〈◊〉 ●●es fore shalt written them upon y● have ● of thy house & upon thy gates